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Leandro

#406 in 2025Boys' name

Lion + man

Leandro has been given to 11,078 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #406 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 785 recorded.

Babies named Leandro, 2025

1 in 4,220

Leandro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leandro: meaning, origin, and history

Lion + man

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leandro means

Leandro means “lion + man”, associated with λέων and ἀνήρ.

Origin, language, and formation

Leandro is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Leandro comes through Ancient Greek Λέανδρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Leandro is pronounced /leˈan.dro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,078 boys were recorded with the name Leandro between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 785 in 2025; its best national rank was #406 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #646 in 2020 to #406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #783 in 2015 to #406 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leandro?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,220
785 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,180
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#406
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leandro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,928 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leandro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leandros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leandro was born before 2013 — so the typical Leandro is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,281
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Choose a decade

2020s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (3,376).

Is Leandro rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+92
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+240
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+377
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (785)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#406
2025

Spellings of Leandro

Leandro is not the most common spelling — Alejandro is, with 66.4% against Leandro's 5.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leandro is used

Across 2016–2025, Leandro was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,563 boys, against 1 in 3,321 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 25,000).

464 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,563
  2. 2Nevada1 in 1,852
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,128
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 2,174
  5. 5Texas1 in 2,222
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 2,273
  7. 7California1 in 2,326
  8. 8Washington1 in 2,632

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Leandro is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 70% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Leandro around the world

Where Leandro ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #758
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #549
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2010–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1925–2025
    #165
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #547
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Leandro

People whose public names include Leandro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leandro in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leandro. Linked forms have their own page here.

LeanderLeandreLenardoLeandros

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leandro by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 240
Best rank ever
#406
2025
Peak year
2025
785 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,078
Count in 2025
785

Names similar to Leandro

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Leandro

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leandro, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Leandro

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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